Blake, Pierce, Stewart, Strasser for Stroudsburg board

In Friday's Pocono Record, school board candidate Rachel Cardelle says we want "our taxpayers — especially those living on a fixed income — to be able to afford their homes."

Yet Cardelle approved several large tax increase while serving on the board from 2007 to 2011. Since 2006, taxes have gone up 32 percent, and Cardelle supported most of those increases.

In addition, Cardelle negotiated the current teacher's six-year contract which granted significant raises each year. A new contract is currently being negotiated. We cannot elect Cardelle so she can support a new contract, which will offer teachers further raises and require additional tax increases.

In a letter of support, John Jakobsen, who has supported all recent tax increases and negotiated the current teachers contract, said he wants to work with Cardelle in the interest of taxpayers.